Personaly I think that there is an old saying hollywood has the right idea when it comes to originality and sucess:
Always be the second to do something new.
The idea being that the first person will do much of the ground work, creating the market, finding out the pit falls etc. You can then learn from the mistakes made by this orignial idea, tinker with it a bit having seen what did and didn't work and release an "original" game, that hasn't got nearly as many barriers to its sucess.
Always be the second to do something new.
The idea being that the first person will do much of the ground work, creating the market, finding out the pit falls etc. You can then learn from the mistakes made by this orignial idea, tinker with it a bit having seen what did and didn't work and release an "original" game, that hasn't got nearly as many barriers to its sucess.